Category: Book reviews

It was on my reading list two years ago for an Irish Literature course that I was taking in university. The two novels, Donal Ryan’s The Spinning Heart and Anne Enright’s The Wig My Father Wore, were assigned at the end of the semester. A time when stress-levels were high, Christmas was so close that all…

It was a Thursday morning. Guided by a tradition that had developed, unbeknownst to my Dad and I, over a few years, we were in the car driving to Portsmouth, New Hampshire. First, a visit to Ceres Bakery for breakfast and to pick up the six sticky buns that were tucked away in a box,…